Following all those bird shots featured in my last four cyberjournals, I now take you to the planet of the flowers. For an insect, a flower is a discovered planet, to explore and to exploit. An ongoing relationship between tiny creature and a colorful blossom may carry scientific, philosophical, or perhaps even spiritual readings; but I focus simply on the aesthetic. I play with the compositional elements, with the tension between forms, the rhythm of lines and patterns, and the play of colors. A tiny beetle parked on a peach-colored hibiscus petal; an ant negotiating a purple-red hibiscus terrain; a spiny-legged spider pouncing on a tiny prey in the crater of a flower; a fragile, transparent-bodied, spider lurking in a delicate orchid; and a nervous black ant in the bosom of a disco-red flower, — these are fragments of a painter's dreamings.>